Sunday, October 13, 2013

I started this blog over a decade ago and in that time it's waxed and wained I don't know if any one still comes here to look at it. .. and that's on me cause I stopped feeding it. I let it fall fallow... I got restless and moved on...

Which is what I am doing with some other things in my life.. I am calling it a day on my weekly OTC podcast segment after 2 years... it's just not as fun as it had been and it's just become a grind for me...

in a smaller move I am calling off the October unseen horror film watching... why? because I am not having fun with it. It has been a while since I have really really liked horror films and while I get a kick out of a few here and there over all I have been left cold by far to many. Been there, done that, it's old hat, it's stale and I am just not into it..

I am sure there are a couple of horror flicks that I will check out during the rest of the month, but for now it's not going to be something that I am going to make sure to get to each day of this month....

Newer slasher flick, well made and OK, but over all maybe I have simply aged out of the watcher/ fan base of these films... for what ever reason I find that crime and noir films engage me more than the slasher film....

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Cold PreyA slasher from Norway... it's cold, it's snowy and in an abandoned ski resort 5 friends stop for the night after one of them is injured. It's spam in a can for the most part and while it looks good, the cast is solid, I am not seeing anything that elevates it from being a average slasher... aside from the fact that it's Norway and it moves along nicely. So maybe solid B territory for this...

Sunday, October 6, 2013

High Tension.... home invasion, capture, escape, psycho flick from France... looks great, made well, but the story??? not something that I loved, and not really anything new. I have to say that I feel I have made my peace with oblivion and so the theme of death, destruction and annihilation don't cut me as deep as others... after all freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose... and I might be the mot free MF on the planet..

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Remake of The Wizard of Gore.... I have never seen the original but picked this up for a couple of bucks at big lots... so we shall see if it was worth the time or the money...Weird, strange, Noirish,It's a bit dark in places (I am talking photo wise here) and there is a William S. Burroughs feel to the film... not a great film, but worth a look.

Friday, October 4, 2013

Rob Zombie as a film maker had been hit and miss for me. I have seen all of his films and until now the only one that I ever felt the need to revisit was The Devils Rejects (but I will admit that I know I need to check out House of 1000 Corpses again).... but now Zombie has given us a film that is worthy a follow up to The Devils Rejects...

The Lords of Salem is a creepy 70s devil worship tale set in present day. It's an ambitious film that references cult and classic films, but also high brow fair. Kubrick's DNA is in this film, as is the Devils Rain and Altered States. It looks great not only in photography but also the set design and lighting. The sound is creepy and restrained, and while the film drags just a bit the pace is fine.

Sheri Moon Zombie is very effective as the star of the film, she is restrained in ways we have not seen from her before, and I would love to see her in another role like this. The music is solid and appropriate for what the film is evoking.

I am going to have to check this out again, if you liked House of the Devil, check this out.

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"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."- attributed to Hunter S. Thompson

“I never knew there was a class system in America until I moved to Ann ArborMichigan. This town was populated – dominated might be a better word- by rich, spoiled college students. I can see how Liverpool gave us the Beatles, but I’ll never understand how Ann Arbor gave us Iggy and the Stooges.”-Dee Dee Ramone, Lobotomy: surviving the Ramones. P. 255

You know, every day I get out of bed and drag myself to the next cup of coffee. I take a sip and the caffeine kicks in, I can focus my eyes again, my brain starts to order the day. I'm up, I'm alive. I'm ready to rock. The time is coming when I wake up and decide I'm not getting out of bed. I'm not getting up for coffee or food or sex. If it comes to me, fine; if it won't, fine. No more expectations. The longer I live the less I know. I should know more. I should know that coffee's killing me. You're suspicious of your suspicions? I'm jealous, Kay. I'm so jealous. You still have the heart to have doubts? Me, I'm going to lock up a fourteen-year-old kid for what could be the rest of his natural life. I gotta do this; this is my job. This is the deal, this is the law, this is my day. I have no doubts or suspicions anymore. Heart has nothing to do with it anymore. Its all in the caffeine.